The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1887-12-03
Items Of Interest.

A lowering of prices of coffee is expected
because of the breaking up of the corner ut
Rio Janeiro.
Ex-senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin. propo-
scs as substitute for woman suffrage to give
every married man two votes.
Venezuela has appealed to the United States
to prevent England from seizing Venezuelan
territory in open defiance of the Monroe Doc
fNe.
1t is claimed that freezes which have re-
Gently occurred in Florida have killed the
yellow fever at Tampa, which had become
epidemic.
The Alexandria compress has so far squeez-
ed and shipped 2l98 bales of cotton, and ex
poets to handle at least 500 more before the
season closes.
Terrebonne Advocate: Many planters have
been busy windrowing cane this week. The
damage to the cane by the freeze of Sunday
night is estimated from 10 to 25 per cent.
| Terrebonne Advocate: Many planters have.
been busy wind-rowing cane this week The
damage to the cane by the freeze of Sunday
night is estimated from 10 to q, per cent.
Iberville South: McEnery men have been
discharged in this parish for daring to exer
else the privilege of voting for the men of
! their choice. This is Reform Democracy!
Bienvl!e New Era: Custom will never come
| TO men who sit down and wait fo1it to come.
In this progressive age the people go to mer
chants who seek their c,stom by advertisip~~s
and they are sensible in doing so.
Never judge a man by appearance; shah
by old coat may contain an editor, while q
man wearing high plug hat and sporting
! dude cane may be a delinquent subscriber
Tecumseh tNeb.) Chieftain.
Bienville New Era The first premium, at
the North Louisiana Fair, for the largest
yield of corn per acre was awarded to Mr.. G.
W. Alexander. of Claiborne. the yield being
one hundred and thirt" bushels,
The N. .. City Item says the knights of
! Labor have opened a cooperative store at
number IA Cbartres street, that city Ten
thousand shares have been issued, and of that
number over three thousand shares have been
subscribed.
Benville New Era Mr.. j. NJ. Goslin, of
! Lincoln was awarded the first premium, at
the Shreveport fair, for the largest yield of
cotton per acre He exhibited Il 4s2 pounds
bale of extra fine cotton, produced on three
quarters Of an acre of hill land.
/ President Greyy has sent in his resignation
and IL crisis is imminent in France, owing tyc
the difficulty of forming a new Cabinet and
electing president that will assure peace
fnl and satisfactory solution!of the differences
now existing in the republic.
| There were attending the public schools in
| thisrState aa 1880 g., $40 pupils; now the at
! tentIHfce is 1885, 6i5, an increase in attendance
ings; now there are 1852 There were 1884
! teachers employed; now there are 2435.
! Kapsas is tE}ing to encourage silk produc-
| lion, Fs'atl has, by act of Legislature, estab-
/ iished a, Skation whore eggs will be distributed
and reelele educated Ten acres have been
set out with lberry trees, and fifteen reels
are now running, producing, it is said, excel
/ lent silk
Lake Charles American Immigrants from
/ tile Northwestern States continue fockng in-
I to Southwest Louisiana. In many places
they are living in tents until they can con-
struct houses. They are just that class of
people that will make our beautiful country
! blossom like the rose in year or two
N, 0. Chronicle: The MeEnery man listens
TO the growing of the NicholIsites over the
election of delegates in the hill parishes, aud
! smiles as he contemplates the change of feel
i ing that will come over his neighbor when the
! lewlands knock the little boom as dead as o
I salted maclSerel.
/ Star service has been established in Lon1si-
I and from Arnaudville to Grand Coteau, nine
| miles and back, six times q week, and from
/ La Place to Arnaudviile, six miles and back,
! three times week and the service between
! 0pelousas and La Place has been curtailed by
amitting La Place and Arnaudvile and end
! ing at l4eonville.
! st. Mary Review: the plantations in this
parish are steadily at work some of them
\ handed. Almost every day hands are being
brought here from different sections TO work.
Everything is quiet, and no idle laborers are
in our town
The steamer Chas. z. Choteau was complete
ly destroyed by fire at the landing i'll Duncan
Miss, on the night of the 23d ult. Two lives
are said to have been lost, together with $500
bales of eDtfon ami $500 sacks of oil cake.
The steamers hull was of iron aid was built
in st. Louis III 1861. by Capt. Jas. Eads, and
she served through the war a Federal gun
boat
One of the largest benefactions in the his
tory OF the world is that of the Baron Hirscb.
who has just given $40, 100000 to Jewish char
tiles in Europe. Like a prudent man. the
baron gives the money during his lifetime,
4 and intends TO see his wishes carried out per-
sonallY. His generosity eelpses ia magni-
tude the gift OF Peabody.
The Tooth anniversary of the waltz occurs
on the 9th of next month. On Dec. 81, 1887,
& Vincent Martin presented an opera in Vienna
which contained new dance which at once
became popular. This dance was the waltz
dance which bids fair to be popular until
the last man and the last woman are so over
come by cold and loneliness that they have
no heart for gayety.
The Arcadia Advance advises the adoption
of the intensive plan % farming. Plant less
that Arcadia is to have compress and a bank
by the next cotton season. Arcadia will COM
press 90, 900 bales of cotton next season lat
60cts per bale, that will be d nice little saving
to our town $i2,000.-The exchange on the
$4,000 business that is done here, will be
about $I2, 500 more, making in all about $24, !.
500 that will remain here, that heretofore has
gone to other towns.
Lake Charles American: The flow of popu.
latnn to Southwestern Louisiana is one of the
: marvellous revolutions of this age Lake
Charles, Welsh, Jennings and Crowley pre-
sent the activity of Western towns. Freight
cars with household goods from the North.
west are constantly on the side tracks; the
hotels and private boarding houses are crowd
ed with guests and the whole prairie is busy
with the energies Of u new activity.
We congratulate the sturdy sons of the
North on the selection they have made for 8
home and We welcome all to Southwestern
Louisiana
Johann Most the ultra soeialistic editor ant
leader of anarchists of New York City wa
convicted on last Monday, on the charge O.
melting to riot, and will go to prison again
| Most talks most too much for his own persona
! liberty, or for the peace and good order o.
society. He is a firebrand, and should be ef
fectnaliy sguelehed from uttering his fanati
cal and diabolieal language against law, re1i
gion, and republican institutions. Anareh,
must be thrOttled at onee or il will prodnc
d great deal of trouble and bloodshed in th
future.
N. o. States: Mr. Atkinsons s proposal tba
the United States should buy Nova Scotia an,
New Brunswick by the payment to Canada Q
} their share OF the Federal debt is gaining a
i afnnunt of support in the provinces themselYe